Jennifer Janisch Clifford, Ph.D. is an environmental and natural resource economist specializing in economic valuation, resource conservation, and incentive instruments. An economic consultant on environmental conservation projects Jennifer has worked on several water projects, including coastal zone and coral reef protection for the government of Belize, benefit cost analysis of the Charles River cleanup, and a major contingent valuation study of the Miyun Reservoir for the Chinese government. Land use projects include an economic valuation and social welfare study of the American public lands and the existence value of American wild horses. Currently she is teaching semester-long courses in environmental economics, natural resources and sustainable development, environmental policy, and economic theory at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Harvard Summer School, and Harvard University extension school’s graduate program in Sustainability & Environmental Management and presenting environmental economics seminars for intensive executive education programs at the Kennedy School of Government. Her topics include The Global Food Crisis: Market Failures & Distortions, Economic Incentives for Environmental Conservation, and Economic Valuation of Environmental Amenities. Clifford was previously employed as a consultant at Harvard Institute for International Development, specializing in Central American environmental protection, and has taught environmental economics at Real Colegio- University of Madrid and Bentley College’s Environmental Management Program. Academic interests include wildlife conservation, food resources, and the environmental & public health costs of livestock agriculture.  She received a PhD in Economics and an MS in Economic Policy & Planning from Northeastern University in Boston, and a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.